Ekodō focuses more on how we engage with environmental and social issues – rather than prescribing what those issues should be. We acknowledge the diversity of issues that people are attending to, and the variety of levels of engagement from artists, to activists, to professionals, to concerned observers.
What is important is that people feel inspired and equipped to engage in a compassionate way: Compassion towards ourselves, our 'opponents', and towards the greater whole that is the environment (which of course cannot be separated from ourselves and our opponents in the first place).
Why compassion? Because it is the most effective way to bring about enduring beneficial change.
What is important is that people feel inspired and equipped to engage in a compassionate way: Compassion towards ourselves, our 'opponents', and towards the greater whole that is the environment (which of course cannot be separated from ourselves and our opponents in the first place).
Why compassion? Because it is the most effective way to bring about enduring beneficial change.
The Ekodo Teaching Team
Wife and husband team Jo Campbell and Sean Weaver, and their Zen teacher Arthur Wells make up the Ekodo teaching team.
Jo Campbell (pictured on the left) is a Practice Leader in the Diamond Sangha Zen Buddhist lineage. She has been practicing Zen since 1999 alongside a career in environmental education and research, entering motherhood, and re-emerging as an artist and retraining in Hakomi therapy. Jo sees art as a way of engaging deeply with the big issues that affect our lives. Some of her work explores emotional responses to environmental issues. Some of her work is focused on deepening her Zen practice. And some of her work has a therapeutic edge to it. Photographs and statements can be found on jocampbellnz.com.
Sean Weaver (pictured on the right) is a Zen teacher (Sensei) in the Diamond Sangha Zen Buddhist lineage. He has studied and practiced Zen since 1990. Sean became a student of Ross Bolleter Roshi in 1998 and then Arthur Wells Roshi in 2012 under whom he completed koan study in 2014 and was authorized to teach Zen in 2015. Professionally he is an environmentally focused social entrepreneur specializing in indigenous forest protection and environmental finance in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Sean has over 25 years experience in environmental protection as an activist, university lecturer, policy analyst, and consultant. He has a particular interest in environmental conflict resolution and linking environmental protection with social and economic well being. He is founder and Director of Ekos - a social enterprise charity specialising in market based environmental financing; and owner and Principal of Carbon Partnership Ltd - a social purpose business specialising in rainforest protection financing through the international voluntary carbon markets.
Arthur Wells (pictured in the middle above) is a Zen master (Roshi) in the Diamond Sangha Zen Buddhist lineage. His background is in social work and counseling, with a special interest in stopping violence programmes for men. Ross Bolleter Roshi, from Perth, Australia, authorized Arthur to teach Zen in February 2008, and gave him transmission in August 2012, making him an independent teacher in the Diamond Sangha lineage. (The Diamond Sangha was founded by Robert Aitken Daishi in Hawaii in 1959, and now has 36 teachers in North and South America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.)
Jo Campbell (pictured on the left) is a Practice Leader in the Diamond Sangha Zen Buddhist lineage. She has been practicing Zen since 1999 alongside a career in environmental education and research, entering motherhood, and re-emerging as an artist and retraining in Hakomi therapy. Jo sees art as a way of engaging deeply with the big issues that affect our lives. Some of her work explores emotional responses to environmental issues. Some of her work is focused on deepening her Zen practice. And some of her work has a therapeutic edge to it. Photographs and statements can be found on jocampbellnz.com.
Sean Weaver (pictured on the right) is a Zen teacher (Sensei) in the Diamond Sangha Zen Buddhist lineage. He has studied and practiced Zen since 1990. Sean became a student of Ross Bolleter Roshi in 1998 and then Arthur Wells Roshi in 2012 under whom he completed koan study in 2014 and was authorized to teach Zen in 2015. Professionally he is an environmentally focused social entrepreneur specializing in indigenous forest protection and environmental finance in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Sean has over 25 years experience in environmental protection as an activist, university lecturer, policy analyst, and consultant. He has a particular interest in environmental conflict resolution and linking environmental protection with social and economic well being. He is founder and Director of Ekos - a social enterprise charity specialising in market based environmental financing; and owner and Principal of Carbon Partnership Ltd - a social purpose business specialising in rainforest protection financing through the international voluntary carbon markets.
Arthur Wells (pictured in the middle above) is a Zen master (Roshi) in the Diamond Sangha Zen Buddhist lineage. His background is in social work and counseling, with a special interest in stopping violence programmes for men. Ross Bolleter Roshi, from Perth, Australia, authorized Arthur to teach Zen in February 2008, and gave him transmission in August 2012, making him an independent teacher in the Diamond Sangha lineage. (The Diamond Sangha was founded by Robert Aitken Daishi in Hawaii in 1959, and now has 36 teachers in North and South America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.)